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The catastrophic fires in Los Angeles are a stark warning to Hamiltonians that climate change is real and getting rapidly worse. Climate breakdown drove the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first time last year,…

In it’s article “Here are some fantastically uplifting stories from 2024“, The Hamilton Spectator highlighted the activities of “the Dundas Four”, Hamilton 350’s elders who were arrested at the RBC branch in Dundas in March this year. Here’s an extract…

Developers are clearly worried that Hamilton’s firm urban boundary is going to affect their projected profit windfalls. See the story Developers want Hamilton mayor to help fast-track urban-expansion project in The Hamilton Spectator, 20 December 2024. As “Nancy”, one of…

From time to time, one comes across an article that, while not necessarily offering new information, sums up what we already know in a powerful and concise manner. In one such piece in The Guardian on December 20, The facts…

In an article in the Toronto Star on December 6, former federal minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna claimed that “as environment minister, I believed the oil sands sector would help us save the planet”. While most of…

About 45 seniors and their supporters, including one on stilts, gathered Tuesday  at King Street West and Sydenham Street in Dundas, where four of Canada’s  major banks each occupy a corner. The protest, organized by Seniors for Climate (SFC), was one of dozens planned across the country on National Seniors…

The Hamilton 350 steering committee is in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en land defenders who are on the frontlines of climate and biodiversity action. They are in court after defending their own lands against Coastal GasLinks (CGL) and the “Community Industry Response…

To mark Earth Day weekend, 22 April 2024, a number of supporters gathered outside the offices of MPPs Neil Lumsden and Donna Skelley. https://youtu.be/RVIVsySEM1c Check out our photo wall from the rally

Four members of Hamilton 350’s Elders 4 Climate Sanity (E4CS) were arrested inside the RBC branch in Dundas at the Stop Destroying Earth rally on 22 March. They are due to appear in court in April. It took six police…

Elders 4 Climate Sanity (E4CS) was founded by six members of Hamilton 350 in the summer of 2018. We wanted to address the climate crisis and attempt to wake more people up to the fact that the earth was burning…

Hamilton City Council today unanimously endorsed a motion supporting the OEB’s rejection of Enbridge’s proposed gas pipeline subsidy. Enbridge’s proposal would shift the cost of building of new gas pipelines onto its customers. Doug Ford has threatened to overrule the…

Hailing Biden’s decision to halt LNG export licences, McKibben explains the sleight of hand used in arguments by the fossil fuel industry that “natural” gas is an appropriate bridge from coal to renewables. Read the story in The Guardian

The NDP’s natural resources critic Charlie Angus tabled a private members bill (C-372) in the House of Commons this week. The bill would ban what the party describes as misleading fossil fuel advertising, similar to the way cigarette ads were…

Over 50 Canadian advertisers and PR agencies have joined a 900-strong global group that has pledged not to work for the fossil fuel industry. Founded in the U.S., the Clean Creatives group aims to shine a light on the key…

The latest UN Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates (COP28) may seem a long way from our priority issues at home: the cost-of-living crisis, health care, unemployment, homelessness and global conflicts. But while Pierre Poilievre glibly lays all…

A letter sent by Hamilton 350 member, Don McLean, to Hamilton City Council.

On Saturday, 28 October, the Elders for Climate Sanity picketed that Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and the other Big Banks at the 4 Banks corner in Dundas. RBC is the Grim Reaper of the Earth, wreaking havoc over Indigenous…

Enbridge and TC Energy are among the top 10 companies that lobbied most for anti-protest bills since 2017, along with ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and Marathon Petroleum. According to a report by Greenpeace USA, Dollars vs. Democracy 2023: Inside the Fossil…

Hamilton 350 Committee steering committee member Don McLean spoke at the October 6 meeting of the city’s Airport Committee. The agenda subject matter was a 20 year master plan proposed by the airport’s private operators of the city-owned airport. Among…

Science, one of the most authoritative journals in the world, published an article in January 2023 providing solid evidence that Exxon Mobile and other fossil fuel corporations had clear knowledge of the harm they were causing. Their modelling was excellent. They…

The awards gala program cited Don’s “leadership attributes”, his skill in raising awareness of the climate emergency, and his work “educating people about divesting from financial institutions.” Present to celebrate were Don’s family members (in town from BC), friends Rose…

The Elders 4 Climate Sanity and friends took to Supercrawl in September to let passersby know that TD Bank—the festival’s main sponsor—is the main banker for tar sands bitumen, an extremely polluting substance. The Big Banks and the companies they…

Doug Ford has finally decided that the heat’s too much and has backtracked over the Greenbelt debacle. For the latest information, see the CBC, the Globe and Mail, and the Hamilton Spectator. And for a more insightful analysis, see The…

From the Ontario Headwaters Institute: “Just a few weeks ago, we shared with the public and reminded the government that its “Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan” was still a draft, languishing for what is now 4 years and 9 months on the…

This item was extracted from an email sent to Hamilton 350 by one of our members.

Who got paid off? That’s a key unanswered question in the Auditor-General’s damning report on how the provincial Conservative government carved up the Greenbelt. She tells us the land speculators will get over $8 billion in a process that strongly…

H350 statement endorsed by ACORN Hamilton, Environment Hamilton, the Hamilton and District Labour Council and the Hamilton Council of Canadians

The Elders for Climate Sanity were at RBC at the Centre on Barton on Friday, 14 April, talking with customers and passersby outside the bank about RBC’s fossil fuel investments and encouraging people to put their money into a credit union instead.…

The Hamilton 350 Committee, a 14-year-old volunteer climate action organization, supports the students of MacDivest and applauds their personal sacrifice in launching a hunger strike at McMaster University on March 20. That said, we also wish to express our concern…

H350’s Climate Justice committee has intervened in the environmental review of a proposed new industrial facility in north Hamilton and is formally challenging it. The project is headed by GFL (Green for Life), a large waste management company well known…

Hamilton 350’s Climate Justice subcommittee meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Starting on Feb 28th and continuing over the next few meetings—in addition to covering other climate justice issues—we will spend part of the meeting reviewing some…

The Greenbelt has been carved up; the Conservation Authorities gutted; wetlands opened for paving; municipal governments financially hamstrung; and massive boundary expansions imposed onto Hamilton and Halton foodlands. There have been over 80 rallies across the province. The tide of…

Thanks, Neal, and Lucia, for joining your Elders 4 Climate Sanity in Dundas today to call out our Dirty Banks, talk with their customers, and treat the bank staff and passers by to seasonal treats! We covered all four bank…

Hamilton 350 supports the public statement released just after the municipal election by a number of newly-elected Councillors, Trustees, and candidates in the recent municipal election. The intention in calling out the article in The Hamilton Spectator was to draw…

Doug Ford is operating at the height of hypocrisy. He claims his efforts to encourage the mining of cobalt, lithium, manganese, nickel, graphite, and copper, in the “Ring of Fire” in northern Ontario’s boreal forests will help our climate. These…

We have a problem, a very big one. The evidence is everywhere. The floods in Pakistan; the extreme heatwaves in India, China, Europe and much of the US this year; the droughts driving famine in Somalia and fires in British…

Fridays for Future is a youth-led and -organized movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks, to protest against the lack…

Once again on Sunday, September 18, 2022, Elders for Climate Sanity (Gail, Mary, Sheila Sue and Don) met at Locke Street Unlocked to continue “Bank Action”. With the Street blocked to traffic and lined with vendors, we mingled with the…

As climatic chaos spreads across the globe we need to re-examine both the threat it poses to Hamiltonians and the ways in which it is being made worse by once accepted development activity. Hundreds of acres of farmland, wetlands, woodlots…

Hamilton 350’s Elders 4 Climate Sanity continued their festival hopping this past weekend. Here’s a couple of photos from our Saturday outing to the Dundas Cactus Festival, where we handed out about two hundred Your Banking Matters flyers and engaged…

People were for the most part friendly and open to the Hamilton 350 Elders 4 Climate Sanity at the Festival of Friends on Saturday in lovely Gage Park, Hamilton. We each spoke with dozens of festival goers. The Elders chose…